{"id":1428,"date":"2022-06-02T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benlevy.com\/blog\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:24:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:24:52","slug":"blue-r34-skyline-gtr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benlevy.com\/blog\/blue-r34-skyline-gtr\/","title":{"rendered":"When R34 Skylines took over Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over the weekend, I was thinking about how long it had been since I&#8217;d seen an R34 Skyline. For a while, they were regulars at car shows. Back in the day, MotoRex was importing these as quickly as they could, so I just assumed R34 Skylines would be everywhere. Things didn&#8217;t really work out for MotoRex, so we&#8217;re still waiting 25 years to bring new models over legally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This got me thinking back to the <a href=\"https:\/\/benlevy.com\/auto\/show\/rpm10\/\">RPM Car Show<\/a> back in 2010. 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